115.220
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prohibit child labour in accordance with international norms and standards, including by setting the minimum age for employment at 14 years, without exceptions, and take specific measures to ensure and stimulate that all children, including girls, attend school, in particular in rural and remote areas
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.217
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt legislative measures to ensure that all forms of sexual abuse, exploitation and sale of children are prohibited and criminalized
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.214
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reform legislation to prohibit forced marriage and put an end to impunity for perpetrators of violence against women and girls
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Impunity
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.213
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee the strict application of the family law prohibiting early marriage and polygamy, particularly in rural and ethnic communities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Minority rights
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.209
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Expand and accelerate implementation of existing frameworks in order to reduce the high rates of child marriage in rural areas
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.198
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to increase the representation of women in politics, particularly applying the 25 per cent quota for the representation of women at all levels of government
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.188
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to take concrete action to address disparities in access to education, especially among rural ethnic groups, as a means to combat poverty, early marriage and human trafficking
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.187
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Make further efforts towards addressing disparities in the education of girls
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.171
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Scale up the investment in and improve the availability and quality of services in rural and remote areas, in particular access to education and health, including sexual and reproductive health, addressing the specific needs and vulnerabilities of women, girls and members of ethnic minorities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.169
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that all women and girls have access to appropriate sexual and reproductive health services, and implement policies, including awareness- raising, to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.165
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Address barriers preventing women and girls from accessing sexual and reproductive health services as made available by the 2016 guidelines on the prevention of unsafe abortions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.153
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that the adoption and enforcement of laws, including the land law of 2019, and implementation of policies in land management and use, are consultative, transparent and fully compliant with international human rights law and standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to land
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.152
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Manage all infrastructure projects, including dams and their safety, to the best of its ability to avoid forced displacement, include the communities concerned in the decision-making process and, in the event of inevitable displacement, guarantee effective compensation and relocation programmes in accordance with international standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Internally displaced persons
- Right to development
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.151
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve planning of development and investment projects to avoid forced displacement, and improve resettlement and compensation plans for land expropriation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Business and human rights
- Right to land
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.125
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all the necessary measures to put an end to child trafficking, including for the purposes of labour and sexual exploitation, as well as to all harmful practices against women and girls, including child, early and forced marriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.120
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop and implement a national action plan on human trafficking and modern slavery, using this as a framework to evaluate progress on combating modern forms of slavery, and allocate funded budgets to the national action plan
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National action plan
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.115
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Facilitate a supportive environment to better enable civil society organizations to operate
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.114
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend Decree No. 238 and its associated amendments to align it with the international human rights obligations and commitments of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, including by eliminating the following: burdensome registration requirements; arbitrary curtailment of activities and finances of associations; criminalization of unregistered associations and the Government’s harassment of their members; and the ability to arbitrarily dissolve non-profit associations, without the right of appeal
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.113
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Put an end to the arrests of those who peacefully express their opinions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.112
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Create and maintain a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders and civil society to constructively contribute to policymaking and national development
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.110
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Refrain from initiating criminal proceedings against individuals for the peaceful exercise of their civil rights, including the right to privacy and freedom of expression, association and assembly, having regard to the importance of creating and maintaining a safe and enabling environment for journalists, human rights defenders and other civil society actors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.109
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
End the arbitrary arrest of individuals for exercising their right to freedom of opinion and expression, including those who peacefully criticize the Government, speak out about negative impacts of infrastructure or investment projects or expose instances of corruption
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Corruption
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.108
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee the freedom of peaceful assembly, opinion and expression, and freedom of the press by releasing all those detained solely because they exercised or defended the exercise of these rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.107
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt legislative changes that guarantee the protection and free exercise of the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.106
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend laws that restrict freedom of expression, assembly and association to comply with international human rights law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.105
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee the effective exercise of freedom of expression by revising its legislation on the media as well as legislation on the fight against cybercrime
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.104
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Bring the Criminal Code into line with obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and immediately release individuals whose arrest and detention under these provisions restricted the legitimate exercise of their right to freedom of opinion and expression
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.102
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully fulfil the obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to respect and guarantee the right to freedom of expression
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.99
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that any restrictions on the exercise of the freedom of expression and peaceful assembly comply with the requirements of articles 19 and 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- International instruments
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.98
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal all legislation inhibiting freedom of opinion and expression that is not compatible with article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- International instruments
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020